Today's Horse Racing

[jamesedwards]

Jump omission due to low sun used to be an occasional thing.

Now it seems to be almost every race when it's sunny. Something has to be done about this.

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[megarain]

Just make it compulsory they all wear sunglasses.

[jamesedwards]

Just make it compulsory they all wear sunglasses.

I went on Google to find a comedy image of a horse wearing sunglasses, only to find that it is actually a thing!

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[jamesedwards]

Somebody dropped a large bollock on the final race of the day when Young Rebel comes from out the back to get up at Fairyhouse.

£20.66 traded at 1000.

[jamesedwards]

Punchestown today;

Centre of Attention ran as Don't Tell Jack in the 12:30. Both trained by the same trainer. Placed 7th and weighed in.

Fortunately someone finally noticed the swap before the 14:10 race and Centre of Attention was subsequently withdrawn.

Shambles!

They only realised an hour later when they scanned in Centre of Attention to be saddled for the 14:10 race and realised it was Don't Tell Jack.

YCMIU!


Prior to the running of the fifth race, the Raceday Stewards withdrew Centreofattention, trained by E. Bolger, as the horse presented to the IHRB for scanning after saddling as Centreofattention was in fact Don’t Tell Jack, also trained by E. Bolger. It subsequently became apparent that the horse Centreofattention had participated in the second race and not the declared horse Don’t Tell Jack, finishing unplaced. The Raceday Stewards interviewed Mr. Frank Berry, Authorised Representative for E.Bolger, M.P. Walsh, rider, Joan Taylor, IHRB Veterinary Officer and James Casey, IHRB Veterinary Assistant. Since the winner alright had been signalled following the second race, the Raceday Stewards were unable to take any further action in relation to that race, and referred the entire matter onto a Senior Racing Official for further investigation. Mr. J. Collins and Mr. C.J. O'Reilly recused themselves from this enquiry.

News in from the inquiry into the above horse mix-up.

Unbelievably, it turns out that for 75% of Irish races, horses are only ever scanned once, when the horses first arrive at the yard. Only 25% of the time are they scanned for a second time as they enter the parade ring. From those 25% of times the second checks have discovered 5 (five!) instances of swapped horses in the past year.

Maths says this means perhaps 15 horses might have run under the name of a different horse and never detected.

https://www.irishracing.com/blogs/ident ... ink/261202

[jamesedwards]

15:57 @ Kempton. Stenmark running on into 3rd but never looking dangerous is backed down from 1000 to 1.01 near the line.

Expensive error for someone.

Stenmark
Price To Back To Lay Traded Backers' Stake Layers' Liability
1.01 £4,592.14
1.02 £354.73
1.03 £305.81
1.04 £18.38
1.05 £143.49
1.06 £2.93
1.07 £249.86
1.08 £242.16
1.09 £41.94
1.1 £2.16
1.11 £98.99
1.12 £99.99
1.15 £27.00
1.17 £47.99
1.2 £10.00
1.22 £20.00
1.23 £4.95
1.25 £95.99
1.3 £3.69
1.32 £3.51
1.33 £8.00
1.34 £3.51
1.35 £99.99
1.36 £3.51
1.37 £420.63
1.38 £3.51
1.4 £209.49
1.41 £2.44
1.42 £3.51
1.44 £6.51
1.46 £3.51
1.48 £3.51
1.5 £23.58

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[weemac]

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